The Agency of Children
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
ISBN-13:
9780521843669
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.12.2012
Seiten:
314
Autor:
David Oswell
Gewicht:
610 g
Format:
235x157x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies.
David Oswell uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies, including family, schooling, crime, health, consumer culture, work and human rights. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across two centuries and places children's agency in the context of leading theoretical approaches.
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces; Part II. Social Theories of Children and Childhood: 3. Modern social theories: agency and structure; 4. Partial and situated agency; 5. Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages; Part III. Spaces of Experience, Experimentation and Power: 6. Family and household; 7. School and education; 8. Crime and criminality; 9. Health and medicine; 10. Play and consumer culture; 11. Political economies of labour; 12. Rights and political participation; Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions.